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  2. Rosh Hashanah - Wikipedia

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    Jewish elder blowing the ram's horn (shofar) Sequence of shofar sounds: tekiah, shevarim, teruah, tekiah The best-known ritual of Rosh Hashanah is the blowing of the shofar, a musical instrument made from an animal horn.

  3. Jewish symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Symbol Image History and usage Star of David: The Star of David, a symbol of Judaism as a religion, and of the Jewish people as a whole. [1] It also thought to be the shield (or at least the emblem on it) of King David. Jewish lore links the symbol to the "Seal of Solomon", the magical signet ring used by King Solomon to control demons and ...

  4. Chai (symbol) - Wikipedia

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    According to The Jewish Daily Forward, its use as an amulet originates in 18th century Eastern Europe. [1] Chai as a symbol goes back to medieval Spain.Letters as symbols in Jewish culture go back to the earliest Jewish roots, the Talmud states that the world was created from Hebrew letters which form verses of the Torah.

  5. Category:Jewish symbols - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Jewish symbols" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 613 (number) A.

  6. Religious and political symbols in Unicode - Wikipedia

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    Characters that fall in the "political or religious" category are given the "general category" So, which is the catch-all category for "Symbol, other", i.e. anything considered a "symbol" which does not fall in any of the three other categories of Sm (mathematical symbols), Sc (currency symbols) or Sk (phonetic modifier symbols, i.e. IPA signs ...

  7. Star of David - Wikipedia

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    In the early 20th century, the symbol began to be used to express Jewish affiliations in sports. Hakoah Vienna was a Jewish sports club founded in Vienna, Austria, in 1909 whose teams competed with the Star of David on the chest of their uniforms, and won the 1925 Austrian League soccer championship. [30]

  8. Kim Kardashian cropped out of Jewish website for being a ...

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    "Kim Kardashian is a specific case, I think everyone understands, I don't want to say this word, but she is a symbol pornographic symbol," Nissim Ben Haim, editor at Kikar HaShabbat, told the AP ...

  9. Hebrew diacritics - Wikipedia

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    Gen. 1:9 And God said, "Let the waters be collected". Letters in black, pointing in red, cantillation in blue [1] Hebrew orthography includes three types of diacritics: . Niqqud in Hebrew is the way to indicate vowels, which are omitted in modern orthography, using a set of ancillary glyphs.